Walter Lippmann was at one time the most influential American writer on politics and world affairs. His writing career spanned the time period from the Progressive Era to the middle of the Cold War.

Walter Lippmann’s “U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic” (1943) has long been a favorite book of mine, not least for its remarkable introduction. “I am ashamed,” Lippmann wrote of his ...

On a recent Saturday morning, after pursuing my bookshelf for a thoughtful read, I pulled out Walter Lippmann’s “Public Philosophy.” Its faded cover and dog-eared pages were a reminder of the many ...

In 1982 Ronald Steel won the National Book Award for his voluminous biography of the long-lived public intellectual Walter Lippmann (1889–1974), whose career as a journalist and author of middlebrow ...

A PREFACE TO MORALS—Walter Lippmann—Macmillan ($2.50). MID-CHANNEL—An American Chronicle—Ludwig Lewisohn—Harpers ($3.50). In the chorus of U. S. philosophizing, somewhere between the deep notes of ...

“Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.” —Nikos Kazantzakis Last spring, before he began a three-month tour of Western Europe, Columnist Walter Lippmann, 77, insisted that ...

IN 1947, Walter Lippmann wrote a small book called The Cold War: A Study in U.S. Foreign Policy. Based on a series of newspaper columns, it was hardly an endorsement ...

In April 1912, Walter Lippmann was feeling down. Four months earlier, he had taken what seemed to him like an exciting postcollegiate political gig: assistant to George Lunn, the newly elected ...

WITH the return of Walter Lippmann to the second (or first-read) section of the Herald Tribune, we have resumed our interrupted study of World Conditions. The presence or absence of Dr. Lippmann at ...

Walter Lippmann, a neighbor of Mr. Roper’s in the Herald Tribune, recently personified the Roper dilemma by a candid statement of his own political stance, a stance so delicately balanced as to be ...